From BBC Scotland: Tory education spokesman James Douglas-Hamilton said: “With £1bn of education spending never reaching the chalkface, it should not be beyond the ability of the minister to sort this mess out. Thanks very much James, I can’t say the odd billion wouldn’t come in handy.

So once again, half of England lies paralysed under an inch of snow. I find myself reminiscing about January 1967, when, as a 10 year-old boy, I walked to school along paths cut through snowdrifts that lifted well higher than my head. All through that bitter winter I didn’t get a single day off. Were…

This Times Online article asks us to IMAGINE A SCHOOL where the children decide what to learn and how to learn it, where the teachers act as facilitators, not instructors, and no one has to ask permission to go to the lavatory. It’s a report on the work of Berry Mayall, professor of sociology at…

Earlier today, I was chatting to my colleague Alex Koval, the creator of the software on which this site was built. Alex lives and works in Kharkov, Ukraine so to save the phone bill we each keep instant messaging (IM) software open on our respective desktops and chat via that. We find IM quick, convenient…

Last Friday’s TES contained an article “Vocation for the amateur” that set me thinking. At first glance I thought it was just more Voc Ed-bashing, but actually it poses a very tricky question; how do you cope with the fact that very few teachers have actually done for a living the skills that they teach?…